ELA Resources

Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/cultivating-love-reading-students-elena-aguilar

Vocabulary
http://smartblogs.com/education/2013/02/05/fat-buttery-glutinous-words-michael-fisher/

http://innovativocab.wikispaces.com/home

Lexile Analyzer
https://www.lexile.com/login/?next=/analyzer/results/1602005/

100 Words Every Middle Schooler Should Know Quiz
http://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html

Grammar

Grammar and the Common Core
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/50-common-core-resources-for-teachers/

The Verbing of America
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/family/verbing.html

YA Lit
The United States of YA - Read Your Way Across the USA
http://www.epicreads.com/blog/the-united-states-of-ya/

http://transformed.teachingquality.org/blogs/shoulders-giants/03-2013/rigorous-young-adult-literature-or-dumbed-down-classics


40 Banned Books
http://blog.hpb.com/hpb-blog/2012/9/27/40-banned-books-to-read-at-your-own-risk.html

American Literature

The University of Virginia
American Literature Hypertexts
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

Linguistics

http://accent.gmu.edu/

Poetry

Upload a photo and fill it in with words
http://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html

Visual Literacy
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/197512181.html?refer=y

Blogging Guidebook
http://www.blogguidebook.com/

Read Alouds
Read Alouds for Boys
http://www.4tunate.net/2012/05/65-favorite-read-aloud-books-for-boys-readers-choice/